After applying Windows 10’s May 2017 Creators update, I found that my Adobe photoshop element’s menu bar has disappeared, and menu items were blank. Adobe was good enough to publish an unofficial fix: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2357293 Apply the following registry value, follow [...]

After converting a couple of legacy Ubuntu 6(!) VMs from ESXi vmdks to qcow2, in Proxmox I setup the vm guests and chose the SATA interface for the qcow2 images. During boot up, grub was showing the error "Begin: Waiting [...]

Many moons ago I bought a MK809 II Android TV stick. This is a popular RK3066 device that one can flash G8’s Picuntu image, and run Ubuntu server on it. It was bleeding edge stuff where you could install [...]

After experiencing overheating problem with Windows 10 on my HP DV7 4131sa laptop, I had to roll back to Windows 7. I was getting the infamous “black screen” problem. After much research I had a hard time trying to locate [...]

As I have recently moved this site to Digital Ocean SSD VPS, I’ve given it another facelift. This site uses WordPress Evolve theme and with this update it now has a responsive design (i.e. mobile friendly) Its been a busy year and I haven’t blogged for awhile, but soon I will add some travel pics here. You […]

A Hero’s Welcome Central London was at a stand still today. 800 TeamGB Olympians and Paralympians on 21 floats received a hero’s welcome. I managed to grab a good vantage point near Charing Cross and snapped a few photos, and I put together videos clips that were taken.

I was lucky enough to get a ticket for the Olympic women’s volleyball event for £45. This gives me a chance to support Team GB – in the historic Earl’s Court exhibition centre in West London. Along the way approaching the venue was a barricaded street soaked with a joyful party atmosphere on a sunny Friday afternoon. […]